1995 Accord v6


I got it with 120,000 miles on it and it's been fun driving it around as I haven't had a car for a few years at this point. Of course gas is expensive and the car doesn't have the best gas milage (especially for city use, which is most of my driving) but while poking around online I found out about this: ScanGauge II which plugs into the OBDII port under the dash on all 1996 and up cars (and some 1995's of which mine happened to be) which gives you access to real time fuel economy and much more.

I've been driving around with it for a few days and am already doing better on gas usage. But better than that I have a new goal while driving to optimize gas usage, which tends to be much better than my normal driving goal of getting super annoyed with all the insanely selfish and stupid people on the road playing out the tragedy of the commons in reallife.

Since the car tends to show up in some top ten most stolen vehicles lists, I did get a new alarm for it, which has been nice as well as the car didn't have remote entry beforehand. The immobilizer tech is all I really wanted, but they don't seem to sell that sans alarm, so I just went for the whole thing.

I have upgrade the stereo as well of course. Pretty cheap stuff from crutchfield.com, but better than the factory tape player for sure. :)